Learn more about how science education research is done and how to get started in discipline-based education research as Discipline-Based Science Education Research introduces you to the philosophical and practical differences between more familiar traditional scientific research and the more unfamiliar domain of sociological research.

Discipline-Based Science Education Research: A Scientist's Guide

Science & Math

Slater, Stephanie J.

Slater, Timothy F.

Bailey, Janelle M.

Astronomy & Space Science

W.H.Freeman

This expanded and updated second edition book is written for scientists who want to learn more about how science education research is done and how to get started in discipline-based education research. It provides the reader with an introduction to the philosophical and practical differences between more familiar traditional scientific research and the more unfamiliar domain of sociological research. Readers will learn about the most robust ideas in education research, which serve as jumping off points in their new forays into the realm of discipline-based education research. Quantitative, interpretive, and action research methods are introduced with real-life, easy to follow examples. The authors, long-time contributors to the science education community, provide rubber-meets-the-road guidance to both first-time and experienced researchers, to get projects off the ground with the goals of improving classroom practice and contributing to the knowledge base on the teaching and learning of science.Discipline-based education research is much like traditional scientific research in that using different instruments sometimes results in unexpected answers. As an example, the cover image uniquely reveals vastly different information about flowers when viewed in visible light (upper left) and in ultraviolet light (lower right). In much the same way, carefully planned and well executed discipline-based education research using a variety of research lenses has the ability to yield unexpected insight into teaching and learning that can benefit all of us.

Discipline-Based Education Research: A Guide for Scientists

Education & Teaching

Heyer, Inge

Schools & Teaching

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

This expanded and updated second edition is written for astronomers who want to learn more about how science education research is done and how to begin studying the teaching and learning of astronomy. It provides fruitful research designs and effective data collection and analysis strategies and points readers to avenues for publishing scholarly work in astronomy education research. The authors, long-time contributors to the astronomy education research community, provide rubber-meets-the-road guidance to both first-time and experienced researchers to get projects off the ground and into the scholarly literature.

Conducting Astronomy Education Research: An Astronomer's Guide

Modern science teaching challenges students to engage in scientific research and participate in scientific discourse – in short, to do science themselves rather than just learn about it. Recent learning sciences research results demonstrate that in order for novice science students to effectively design, conduct, report, and defend science observations and experiments, learners must be purposefully supported in each step of the scientific process before they are able to successfully pursue scientific questions of their own design. Using a backwards faded scaffolding approach, these labs provide classroom-ready materials for bringing these two ideas together: scaffolding strategies that teach students to fruitfully engage in scientific thinking and design astronomy investigations by mining online astronomy databases, including GalaxyZoo access to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and NASA Solar System Simulators.

Introduction to Research in Astronomy: A Backwards-Faded Scaffolding Approach

Kregenow, Julia

Palma, Christopher

Investigating Astronomy: Photo Companion Book to the Audible Edition

Berryhill, Katie J.

Independently published

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